24. (Piano teacher speaking) Well she got it from Bob and he's a good player so I thought it would be a good piano (and well worth $100... about a spinet with at least two dozen hammers with the felt peeling/peeled off and otherwise not even really qualifying as a PSO) On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Paul T Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> wrote: > > 21. I think somebody replaced the "pads" once > 22. It was totally rebuilt (meaning...maybe new bass strings and/or > hammers) > 23, If the soundboard has a crack in it, then it's worthless. > > > > > *"Rob & Helen Goodale" <rhgoodale at embarqmail.com>* > Sent by: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org > > 07/01/2008 12:45 PM > Please respond to > Rob & Helen Goodale <rrg at unlv.nevada.edu>; Please respond to > Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org> > > To > <pianotech at ptg.org> cc > Subject > SOME COMMON WIVES TALES > > > > > Here are a few common or reported piano wives tales. Feel free to add to > the list if you have more. > > 1. Plates are made of solid brass > 2. Cases are made of "solid" whatever the veneer happens to be, i.e. "For > Sale: solid oak piano". > 3. Full sized uprights are also called grands. > 4. Any old piano MUST be valuable because everyone knows that antiques are > > priceless. > 5. The piano has had only one owner so therefore it's in good condition. > 6. The piano has had four owners so therefore it must be in poor > condition. > 7. The piano used to be owned by the guy who wrote the "Love Boat theme", > therefore it's more valuable. > 8. If the keys have real ivory it must be a good piano. > 9. "The salesman told me it's the same brand that Elvis owned so I know > its > a good piano." > 10. "They just don't make good pianos anymore". > 11. "It was in tune when I bought it but then it went out. There must be > something wrong with it." > 12. "I keep a jar of water under it so that it will stay in tune longer." > 13. "I keep a jar of baking soda inside so that the sound board won't > crack." > 14. "I have PERFECT PITCH so I know that this piano isn't tuned right." > 15. "I always have the piano tuned flat so that it will last longer". > 16. "I know it isn't a big deal to fix it, I read about it on the > internet". > 17. If you restring a piano it will never sound as good as it did when it > was new. > 18. "My piano has gotten used to the way I play it". > 19. "This is the same piano my music teacher owns so I know its a great > piano." > 20. "It's not played very much so it never goes out of tune". > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080701/d4b732f1/attachment.html
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